After Effects (Beta)

A   message was put up saying this problem was fixed in the nlatest release, but I just ran it   and it suddenly  upped  and forced me to save my  work before it closed down all by itself. So, not fixed I am afraid.  I havve  just downloaded the current beta to see if that misbehaves in a similar way ?

The bounding box of a 3d object is visible in the rendered video if the object is not moving.

Even when you save a copy you can't quit AE Beta. 

This snippet should be self-explanatory 😉var win = new Window("palette", "test"); win.txt = win.add('statictext', undefined, "Hello World!"); win.layout.resize(); // This should change the txt color // It works in non-beta var g = win.txt.graphics; var color = [1,0,0,1]; // RED! var textPen = g.newPen( g.PenType.SOLID_COLOR, color, 1 ); g.foregroundColor = textPen; win.show(); It works correctly in the latest release, but not in the Beta with the new UI.There's no error, it just doesn't change the color.

Pretty simple one this - it would save a lot of time when exporting, as well as reduce the chances of mis-named files, at least in my workflow. I'd suggest adding a checkbox to the MOGRT export dialog with the option of 'MOGRT name from Comp Name' or similar. The benefits would be to simplify the export process, as it's easy to forget to update the comp name in a second place (the Essential Graphics panel as well as the actual Comp name). Version control is really important for some of the projects I work on, so having the output file reflect the Comp name is a high priority for me. Also, if any of the AEP to MOGRT script functionality could be added that would be super-useful (highest on the list would be export multiple MOGRTs at once - this would be especially useful when working on brand toolkits).

Plugin / Script panels buttons are glitchy a bit in the newest beta.It's like round bevels and light grey colour is enforced on the buttons.The picture below: left: AE 2024, right: AE Beta 

When you change the name of any element in the Project window (folder, file, composition, ...) it automatically slides to the very bottom of the window. This is counterproductive and requires scrolling back to the element with changed name. I'm not sure if it's a glitch or?Please see the the weird behaviour in the following video:https://streamable.com/cu2whs

Steps to reproduce:    1. After tracking with AE's native point tracker, press the grave/tilde key with mouse over the timeline panel to maximize it    2. Turn off animation for one of the keyframed tracking parameters or paste keyframes from one tracker's  parameters to another. Result: Timeline panel pops back down to its normal sizeExpected: I can work in the expanded view System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.4.0.23    OS: Windows v10.0.19045, RAM: 31.85 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 12

Video of the issue

While Ilustrator and Photoshop betas are there, AE is missing under "Pre-release" and under "Apps" tabs. Any suggestions how to find it?OS Win, there are AE23 and AE24 installed at the system.Thanks!

Usually when in an active composition, you'd see that composition highlighted with a box, but now I just see the flow and feel very unsure of which composition I'm in. I use this to navigate through precomps so it must be retained from the pre-spectrum design update. Thanks

May also be present in release version haven't checked.Swapping colors on the Gradient Ramp fx clamps any value above/below 0-1.0 float losing the origianl value. Tested in 24.4.0 build 16.

Pop up window showed up never to go away. When pressing Esc key the window flicker but stayed on the screen until crashed and closed AE.

I'm using (an older version of) Trapcode Particular to create some stars forming a logo. I've coloured the particles from a gradient ramp with completely normal (not over 1,1,1) colours, which range from a light cyan to white - no yellow at all. Weirdly, one clump of particles (I have no other effects on the layer other than Particular) renders as yellow, and if I look at its RGB values, the blue is "nan", which I've never seen before. My project is 32 bit, set to "Adobe Color Managed" (I also tried some of the OCIO options, but it made no difference to the Area of Weirdness):If I drop the comp into my PPro timeline, the Area of Weirdness appears as a black dot:If I change the project to 8bpc, the issue goes away. But my glows and sparkles aren't as nice. Odd.

After working for usually 15-20 minutes on a project in the Beta, it suddenly hangs for no apparent reason, even if I am not actually doing anything at that point in time, and that's it, the only way out  is via Task Manager and the big red switch, loosing any work you may not have saved in the interim period. There is no apparent pattern as to what I may have been doing immediately before, but just maybe it has to do with resizing a control, typically a Shape, which does seem to fit  my occurences quite well ?. W10 Pro, 16Gb Ram, I7 processor, GTX 980 GPU. 

glb models in my composition view appears black/invisible Steps to reproduce:  Drag glb file from the file explorer into After Effects 'Project' window Drag glb file from the Project tab to 'Create a new composition' button at the bottom of the 'Project' window 'Model Settings' window pops up: click 'OK'     Result: 3D model appears invisible in composition view    Expected: Visible 3D model in composition view  This happens with all glb files. They work fine in other programs. System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.0.0.40    OS: Windows v10.0.19045, RAM: 13,93 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 8

Whenever I double click a text layer to edit, it just makes the same "popping" sound you hear whenever a some function can't be executed. I don't have this issue with non-beta version

I notice that all the match names for the renderers seem to have changed in the latest build (not sure exactly which build, but recently). Is that intentional? If so, it's really bad news for some of us that have products in the field that depend on the previoius names. Will there be some warning before this change goes into a general release?

I'm running the latest version of Ae Beta.  GLB Imports fine into Blender. Keep getting Blue Box with Send to Ae feature in Painter.  Send to Ae configuration shown in screenshot.

I'm using AE Beta 24.2.0x66.I'm currently waiting for some tracking to complete on a ~30sec clip. The track points have gone way off, but there's no way to cancel the tracking, regardless of what I press/click. Clicking the 'stop' icon in the Tracker panel does nothing, hitting Esc does nothing...AE is completely unresponsive, but is continuing to do the track (even though the track points are totally useless).

I am unable to use Warp Stabilizer.  It hangs up while Initializing.  System info    Application: After Effects (Beta) v24.0.0.17    OS: macOS v13.3.1, RAM: 32.00 GB GB, CPUs (logical): 10

With beta build 24.4/6 (available today) there are some changes to the way fonts are handled when they go missing which we want you to be aware - just in case any of you come across some weird behavior we should know about.   Fonts are troublesome, as you all know, and I continually get surprised by the range of behavior they manifest and consequently the code has to be prepared to deal with.   The high level summary is that since last year we have been observing crashes involving Projects being opened which contained references to missing Variable fonts. The crash seemed to be occurring after they were synced from Adobe Fonts and After Effects goes to update the missing font references with the newly installed font.   (This is one of those huge benefits we (and you) derive from customers' submitted crash reports - we see things go wrong in ways on your systems that we were not seeing on our own test environments. Once we see enough crash reports, we can know where

As  the years pass, I notice that my eyesight is degrading, and now, I am finding it really difficult to read the text on the screens of many items in Adobe Apps such as After Effects (in particular right now). I hate to admit that I have even had to resort to loading the Windows Magnifier wioth AE, and then needing to use it to increase the font size by 20% at least so I can read the various options that change all the time could remain at the default size, such as items that do not change, eg :  menu style options in the various panes, which remain the same most of the time,  whereas the content of panels such as the Right hand "Information  panel" where we are  looking for different items all the time, it would be INVALUABLE to be able to have a larger font set here. so I can find a specific effect or whatever  The same applies to the sundry items entries in the left pane of the timeline, including all  the "blue colored" settings,andthe

When a panel is temporarily maximised with the tilde key '~' it unmaximises as soon as you switch tools (except for Selection, Hand, Zoom oddly). For example maximise then switch from the selection tool to the pen tool to modify a path. It's quite minor, but one of those annoying "I wish it didn't do that" things.

Hi all! Excited to let you know today that Label Color Menu Swatches are now available in After Effects 24.3.0.041. You can now more easily identify the color you'd like to set your project items, keyframes, layers, or composition marker labels so that you can stay in your creative flow.     For Keyframe Color Labels, simply right-click the keyframe and select "Label": you'll be shown color options both as text and a swatch in the menu.     Layer Labels can be changed by clicking the layer's label color. The swatches will be displayed automatically next to the color names.     Similarly, Project Item Label colors can be changed by clicking the label color in the Project panel.     To change your Marker Labels, right-click the marker and select "Settings". Click the "Label" dropdown to see the swatches next to color names.     Let us know how these work for you!